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Arakan Magazine – Issue Q4/2025
Arakan Magazine – Issue Q4/2025

In This Issue: 

  1. Editorial: Rohingyas are in a geopolitical crossroad: Global Powers and Competing Interests
  2. Rohingya Resilience in Exile: Rebuilding Lives in Refugee Camps
  3. Containing Arakan Army: A Security Imperative for Myanmar and Bangladesh
  4. Ending Digital Violence against Women and Girls
  5. Myanmar’s Election: Conflict, Exclusion, and a Crisis of Legitimacy
  6. Rohingya Families in Maungdaw Prepare to Flee Amid Forced Conscription Fears
  7. Arakan Army Orders Rohingya to Surrender Household Registration Lists
  8. Fire Tears Through Rohingya Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Injuring Three Children and Destroying Dozens of Shelters
  9. Rohingya Men and Women Forced to Join Armed Group in Maungdaw
  10. ARNO Welcomes UN Third Committee Resolution on Rohingya Rights, Demands Accountability for Armed-Group Abuses

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ARNO statement on the SPDC’s violence against revered monks and people

Date: 28th September 2007

Arakan Rohingya National Organisation strongly condemns the SPDC’s brutal crackdown against unarmed peaceful demonstrators and urges the international community to take concerted and tougher action to stop the regime from further committing crimes against humanity against the people of Burma.

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THOUGHTS ON MUSLIMS OF BURMA AND CURRENT EVENTS THERE


BY DR. HABIB SIDDIQUI

Burma is a country that has people of many races, ethnicities and religions. Because of lack of reliable census data the exact number of these various communities is not known. There is no question though that the Buddhist population makes up the vast majority in the country, followed by Muslims, Christians, Hindus and animists. According to non-official estimates by various agencies (including those of the US State Department), the Muslim population in Burma is somewhere between 10 to 20%, including the much-discriminated and suffering Rohingya population of Arakan (Rakhaing) state, whose nearly half the population is now living in Diaspora as refugees in many parts of our world as a result of Burma's inhuman, discriminatory Citizenship Law of 1982.

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Akyab Muslim (Rohingya) community joins monks protest

September 26, Akyab: For the first time yesterday, the Muslim community joined a protest led by monks in Akyab after five major demonstrations broke out in the Arakan State's capital, Burma since August 28, said a resident.
"I saw over 1000 Muslims march the streets of Akyab along with several monks and Buddhist people forming human chains," the resident said.
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Mounting Challenge

MYANMAR, formerly Burma, is in crisis for the sixth day. Highly influential Buddhist monks have led peaceful demonstrations in Yangon, protesting against the military government. Yesterday in a highly symbolic move, a thousand monks led other demonstrators to the home of Nobel Peace laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi, who has spent 11 years under house arrest, came to her door and greeted them.
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Statement of ARNO on the ‘Policy Statement of ANC on the Peoples of Arakan’

Dated: 18th September 2007

With regard to the ‘Policy Statement of Arakan National Council (ANC) on the Peoples of Arakan’ dated 7/9/2007 Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) would like to state as follows:

 

(1)    Arakan is a multicultural society with a population of diverse ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious identities. All its peoples are broadly called ‘Arakanese’, irrespective of their language, race, culture and religion. But unknown is the word ‘Arakan’ for its people.

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Prime Minister condemns Burma crackdown

2 September 2007

The PM Gordon Brown; image copyright: ReutersGordon Brown has condemned the crackdown on protesters in Burma and called on the authorities to release those detained.

In a Downing Street statement, the Prime Minister defended the actions of people who have taken to the streets to protest against rising prices and backed calls for the United Nations to examine developments in the country.

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Activists in 21 Countries Join 24hr Hunger Strike for Burma

Media Release from Burma Campaign UK

For Immediate Release Tuesday 4th September 2007

Activists in 21 countries are today taking part in a 24 hour hunger strike
in solidarity with 41 detained protestors who are on hunger strike in Burma.
The detained protestors, now on their sixth day of hunger strike, are
demanding that the Burmese military regime allow medical treatment for one
of their number, Ye Thein Naing, (aka) Oo Way. His leg was broken when he
was attacked by a regime militia as he took part in a peaceful protest. Last
night the hunger strikers were removed from Kyaikkasan Detention Center.
Their current whereabouts is unknown.

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